Alan Cathcart

Fifty years ago the Suzuki RG500 made its competition debut, and in doing so raised the curtain on the modern era of 500cc Grand Prix racing, by making …
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Alan Cathcart’s MV Agusta – MotoGP 1957–1976 is a stunning tribute to the golden era of Italian Grand Prix racing, capturing untold stories, rare photographs and …
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The return of Ducati to the MX and Enduro market dictates a look in the rear view mirror of history to back when the famous Italian sportbike manufacturer …
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After Alan Cathcart’s best-selling books recounting his experiences as the only journalist to have tested almost all of the factory Ducati desmo V-twin World Superbikes from 1988 to …
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The October 1997 debut of Yamaha’s YZF-R1 put the Japanese company at the leading edge of sportbike design – a position for which it’s been in contention ever …
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Even now when you can buy a racer-with-lights like a BMW M 1000 RR, Ducati V4R or Bimota KB 998, and ride it on the public highway in …
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Alex Criville’s story to becoming a MotoGP icon is a brilliant one. As a bike mad teenager, he basically made it all happen himself and with raw talent, sheer guts …
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Having tested Aspar’s 1988 World title-winning rotary-valve Derbi and Gianola’s runner-up reed-valve Honda RS125R in 1988, I figured before stepping aboard it at Jarama that I had a …
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It’s not every day you see a Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn limousine, for one thing they were only manufactured for a few years, during the height of Britain’s postwar …
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For 30 years Fabio Taglioni was the Technical Director of Ducati, its Direttore Tecnico, and was responsible for all manner of engine designs ranging from single-cylinder lightweights to …
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